Improvement in making paper collars



UNITED .STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN F. GRAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING PAPER COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,948, dated November S, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN F. GRAY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Paper Collar; andI do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part ot' this specification, is a description of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

This invention relates to the construction of thcwell-known turn over77 papercollars, and has for its object the production from smooth paper sheets of collars havin g such form, when iinished, that they can be worn or their ends brought around to meet upon the neck without wrinkling7 puckcring, or corrugating the inner portion or neckband.

The accompanying diagram represents the outlines of a collar in the ilat shape it has when iirst cut or stamped out from the sheet. It may be called a collar-blank.

The Iine rv a' denotes the division-line between the neckband A and dress portion B ot' the collar, upon which line the collar is doubled or turned over.

In one method of construction as now practiced the collar is simply turned on this line to tinish it so far as relates to form; but it will be readily understood that this is objectionable, because when the collar is so turned and the two ends are brought together the neckband is either pressed out ot' shape or causes the outer portion to hug too closelyT against it, leaving no space for proper insertion ot' a necktie. The divisionline .fr has also been made on a curve, by which, whenV Veasily inserted between the parts A B.

This method, however, is difficult ot' times by stretching the collar at the division line a' x, after the saine has been folded, leaving the edges a a and b b free from elongation.

My invention consists in producing the desired form by shrinking the neckband of the collar after the saine has been turned. By this process the outer or dress portion, B, of the collar is preserved in or nearly in its normal condition, while the shrinking of the neckband A. provides for the easy insertion of a necktie between the two portions of the collar. Various methods ot' producing this shrinkage may be employed. That which I prefer to practice and consider the best is as follows:

The collar-blank is rst turned on the straight line w fr. Then the neck-band is moistened by a sponge with water, and while in a damp condition the collar, turned or unturned, is drawn around' a conical block, to whichheathasbeenapplied. Theheattromthe block dries and shrinks the neckloind, such shrinkage being greatest at the lower edge of the band, and decreasing to the division-line x a'. Then iemoved, it will be found that while the outer portion has retained its flat form or a cylindrical foim when the ends a: e brought together the neckband assumes tl e position ofthe fustum of a cone, so that whs n applied to the neck the upper portion sta-m s away from the neck, and a necktie can be It will be observed that by this process there is no strain upon the collar, as when the pars are stretched or elongated, nor is there an irregularity produced in the upper line of the turned collar, as in the methods of construction referred to.

I claim- A paper collar in which the nished form is given by treatment ot' the neckband, snbstantially as set forth.

ALLEN F. GRAY.,

Witnesses:

J. UnosEY, F. GoULn, 

